All posts by Alberto Pan

Alberto Pan is Chief Technical Officer at Denodo and Associate Professor at University of A Coruña. He has lead Product Development tasks for all versions of the Denodo Platform. He has authored more than 25 scientific papers in areas such as data virtualization, data integration and web automation.

Many companies today are embarking on data governance initiatives to avoid drowning in big data. As explained here, data governance tries to establish an upfront agreement regarding: What the company needs to track How those things should be named What…

If you check the reference architectures for big data analytics proposed by Forrester and Gartner, or ask your colleagues building big data analytics platforms for their companies (typically under the ‘enterprise data lake’ tag), they will all tell you that…

In my previous posts, we reviewed some of the main optimization techniques used by Denodo in Logical Data Warehouse and Logical Data Lake scenarios (see here and here). We also provided real numbers showing that a logical architecture can achieve…

After my previous posts about the performance of data virtualization in Logical Data Warehouse and Logical Data Lake scenarios, I have received similar feedback from many of you, “ that is all very interesting… but we want numbers!” Well, you…

Update: Interested in data virtualization performance? Check out our most recent post, “Physical vs Logical Data Warehouse Performance: The Numbers.” After my initial post about the topic, I have received several requests to provide more examples of how query…